placenamesKnockbrack
An Cnoc Breac
Two small crossings record different stages of transport in Knockbrack, Magheraboy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Cnoc Breac · Irish · main form · validated name
- Knockbrack · English · main form
Place & story
Foundry Bridge
Foundry Bridge carries a road across Dooballagh Burn. Its stone arch has projecting buttresses on both faces. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage suggests rebuilding or alteration around the mid-nineteenth century, while noting a bridge on the 1836 map. It connects the name with a nearby smithy shown on later mapping. [2]
A railway crossing
Another single-arch bridge in Knockbrack carried the narrow-gauge Strabane–Letterkenny railway over a stream. The line opened in 1909 and closed in 1960. The inventory records the surviving structure in a private garden beside an altered crossing-keeper’s house, with its rails removed and grass covering the deck. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Civil parish
- Leck
- Within
- Magheraboy
- Within
- Knockbrack
- Coordinates
- 54.91022, -7.68814 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413081 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockbrack. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Foundry Bridge, NIAH record 40906111 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Former railway bridge, NIAH record 40906119 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.